Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:06:02 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: downsj@teeny.org (Jason Downs) Subject: Re: crontab security hole Message-ID: <199612170906.KAA14465@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612170316.TAA22717@threadway.teeny.org> from Jason Downs at "Dec 16, 96 07:16:12 pm"
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As Jason Downs wrote: > strncat() always terminates, strncpy() does not if it runs out of space. I've been confused about the former, but the latter is what i call an error by design. (There are more of them in the C standard library, like the missing snprintf() or a similar function, and the existance of gets().) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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